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Better Together: Restoring the American Community by Robert D. Putnam
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $28.22For his new book Robert Putnam visited a number of places across America where individuals and groups are engaged in unusual forms of social activism and civic renewal. These are people who are... -
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis by Robert D. Putnam
Booksplease Price: $26.72A New York Times bestseller and "a passionate, urgent" (The New Yorker) examination of the growing inequality gap from the bestselling author of Bowling Alone: why fewer Americans today have the... -
An Analysis of Robert D. Putnam's Bowling Alone Elizabeth Morrow 9781912127726
RRP: $12.68Booksplease Price: $11.66American political scientist Robert Putnam wasn't the first person to recognize that social capital - the relationships between people that allow communities to function well - is the grease that... -
American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us by Robert D Putnam
RRP: $46.80Booksplease Price: $35.47Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416566731Author Robert D PutnamFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher... -
Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy by Robert D. Putnam
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $66.98Why do some democratic governments succeed and others fail? In a book that has received attention from policymakers and civic activists in America and around the world, Robert Putnam and his... -
Democracies in Flux: The Evolution of Social Capital in Contemporary Society by Robert D. Putnam 9780195171600
RRP: $49.71Booksplease Price: $43.35In his national bestseller Bowling Alone, Robert Putnam illuminated the decline of social capital in the US. Now, in Democracies in Flux, Putnam brings together a group of leading scholars who... -
Democracies in Flux: The Evolution of Social Capital in Contemporary Society by Robert D. Putnam 9780195150896
RRP: $167.70Booksplease Price: $144.83The recent, highly sucessful publication of Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert Putnam, has attracted new attention to the subject of civil society. While markets... -
Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated: The Collapse and Revival of American Community by Robert D Putnam 9781982130848
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $26.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982130848Author Robert D. PutnamFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher... -
Saving Democracy: A Plan for Real Representation in America by Kevin O'Leary 9780804754989
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $35.57Saving Democracy presents a bold yet practical plan for reinventing American democracy for the twenty-first century. The book diagnoses contemporary political ills as symptoms of corruption in our... -
The Upswing: How America Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again by Robert D Putnam
RRP: $40.95Booksplease Price: $27.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982129156Author Robert D PutnamFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher... -
The Upswing: How We Came Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again by Robert D Putnam 9781800750371
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800750371Author Robert D PutnamFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Swift PressPublisher Swift... -
The Age of Obama: The Changing Place of Minorities in British and American Society by Tom Clark 9780719082788
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $38.10Drawing on collaborative research from a distinguished team at Harvard and Manchester universities, The age of Obama asks how two very different societies are responding to the tide of diversity that... -
The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-Based Models of Competition and Collaboration by Robert Axelrod
RRP: $87.75Booksplease Price: $75.91Robert Axelrod is widely known for his groundbreaking work in game theory and complexity theory. He is a leader in applying computer modeling to social science problems. His book The Evolution of... -
The Power of Ideas: Words of Faith and Wisdom Jonathan Sacks 9781399800013
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $29.54Britain's most authentically prophetic voice - The Daily Telegraph'The choice with which humankind is faced is between the idea of power and the power of ideas.'From his appointment as Chief Rabbi in... -
The Power of Ideas: Words of Faith and Wisdom Jonathan Sacks 9781399800020
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Britain's most authentically prophetic voice - Daily Telegraph'The choice with which humankind is faced is between the idea of power and the power of ideas.'From his appointment as Chief Rabbi in... -
Pop-Up Civics in 21st Century America: Understanding the Political Potential of Placemaking by Ryan Salzman 9780367690205
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $79.83How people associate and engage in politics in the 21st century is notably different from similar behaviors in the 20th century. Ryan Salzman examines the political potential of placemaking, an... -
Hard Times: Inequality, Recession, Aftermath by Tom Clark
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $19.60An analysis of the enduring social costs of the post-2008 economic crisis 2008 was a watershed year for global finance. The banking system was eventually pulled back from the brink, but the world was... -
A Passion for Cooperation: Adventures of a Wide-Ranging Scientist by Robert Axelrod 9780472076550
Booksplease Price: $76.54A Passion for Cooperation is the exciting autobiography of Robert Axelrod, one of the most acclaimed and wide-ranging scientists of the last fifty years. After being recognized by President Kennedy... -
A Passion for Cooperation: Adventures of a Wide-Ranging Scientist by Robert Axelrod 9780472056552
RRP: $40.85Booksplease Price: $40.52A Passion for Cooperation is the exciting autobiography of Robert Axelrod, one of the most acclaimed and wide-ranging scientists of the last fifty years. After being recognized by President Kennedy... -
Bureaucrats and Politicians in Western Democracies by Joel D. Aberbach 9780674086272
RRP: $68.15Booksplease Price: $57.49In uneasy partnership at the helm of the modern state stand elected party politicians and professional bureaucrats. This book is the first comprehensive comparison of these two powerful elites. In... -
Local Heroes: The Political Economy of Russian Regional Governance by Kathryn Stoner-Weiss 9780691092812
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $78.84In Local Heroes, Kathryn Stoner-Weiss analyzes a crucial aspect of one of the great dramas of modern times--the reconstitution of the Russian polity and economy after more than seventy years of... -
American Religion: Contemporary Trends - Second Edition by Mark Chaves
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $36.21Most Americans say they believe in God, and more than a third say they attend religious services every week. Yet studies show that people do not really go to church as often as they claim, and it is... -
Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition by James T. Kloppenberg 9780691154336
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $25.80Derided by the Right as dangerous and by the Left as spineless, Barack Obama puzzles observers. In Reading Obama, James T. Kloppenberg reveals the sources of Obama's ideas and explains why his... -
Disaffected Democracies: What's Troubling the Trilateral Countries? by Susan J. Pharr 9780691049243
RRP: $101.40Booksplease Price: $86.29It is a notable irony that as democracy replaces other forms of governing throughout the world, citizens of the most established and prosperous democracies (the United States and Canada, Western... -
Reading Obama: Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition by James T. Kloppenberg 9780691147468
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $33.25Derided by the Right as dangerous and by the Left as spineless, Barack Obama puzzles observers. In Reading Obama, James T. Kloppenberg reveals the sources of Obama's ideas and explains why his... -
![Improving Poor People: The Welfare State, the "Underclass," and Urban Schools as History by Michael B. Katz](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/186084/185802/9780691016054__17858.1686810060.jpg?c=1 "Improving Poor People: The Welfare State, the "Underclass," and Urban Schools as History by Michael B. Katz")
Improving Poor People: The Welfare State, the "Underclass," and Urban Schools as History by Michael B. Katz
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $66.98"There are places where history feels irrelevant, and America's inner cities are among them," acknowledges Michael Katz, in expressing the tensions between activism and scholarship. But this major... -
Crisis and Compensation: Public Policy and Political Stability in Japan by Kent E. Calder
RRP: $179.40Booksplease Price: $146.27Why does Japan, with its efficiency-oriented technocracy, periodically adopt welfare-oriented, economically inefficient domestic policies? In answering this question Kent Calder shows that Japanese... -
The 9.9 Percent: The New Aristocracy That Is Entrenching Inequality and Warping Our Culture by Matthew Stewart
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $24.55A "brilliant" (The Washington Post), "clear-eyed and incisive" (The New Republic) analysis of how the wealthiest group in American society is making life miserable for everyone-including themselves... -
Older and Wiser: New Ideas for Youth Mentoring in the 21st Century by Jean E. Rhodes 9780674292277
RRP: $31.10Booksplease Price: $27.67Winner of the Eleanor Maccoby Book Award"This engaging and well-written book is a significant advance in our understanding of when and how mentoring matters...[It] lays the foundations for an... -
Democracy: A Reader by Larry Diamond 9780801893780
Booksplease Price: $60.16Since its inception, the Journal of Democracy has served as the premier venue for scholarship on democratization. The newest volume in the acclaimed Journal of Democracy book series, Democracy: A... -
Democracy: A Reader by Larry Diamond 9780801893773
Booksplease Price: $121.62Since its inception, the Journal of Democracy has served as the premier venue for scholarship on democratization. The newest volume in the acclaimed Journal of Democracy book series, Democracy: A... -
Status Syndrome: How Your Place on the Social Gradient Directly Affects Your Health by Michael Marmot
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $19.07Why do Oscar winners live for an average of four years longer than other Hollywood actors? Who experiences the most stress - the decision-makers or those who carry out their orders? Why do the... -
Social Capital: Reaching Out, Reaching In by Viva Ona Bartkus 9781849801652
RRP: $111.05Booksplease Price: $103.23Social capital has taken the social sciences by storm yet remains fraught with controversy. Despite its complexity and conceptual difficulties, the persistent interest in social capital arises from... -
Late Admissions: Confessions of a Black Conservative Glenn C. Loury 9781324116721
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $27.75Glenn C. Loury is often radically opposed to the political mainstream and delights in upending what's expected of a Black public figure. But more than the arguments themselves-on affirmative action,... -
In The Post-Urban World: Emergent Transformation of Cities and Regions in the Innovative Global Economy by Tigran Haas 9781138394155
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $97.87In the last few decades, many global cities and towns have experienced unprecedented economic, social, and spatial structural change. Today, we find ourselves at the juncture between entering a... -
Exodus: Immigration and Multiculturalism in the 21st Century by Paul Collier
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $15.50Exodus is an insightful, expert foray into the explosive issue of immigration, from Paul Collier, award-winning economist and author of The Bottom BillionMass international migration is a response to... -
The Politics of Social Change: From the Sixties to the Present Through the Eyes of a Generation Larry M. Bartels 9780226845258
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $32.55How did we get to this point in American politics? Drawing on insights from an unprecedented decades-long study of ordinary Americans' political lives, this book tells the story of how, why, and when... -
No Citizen Left Behind by Meira Levinson 9780674284241
RRP: $42.80Booksplease Price: $36.76While teaching at an all-Black middle school in Atlanta, Meira Levinson realized that students' individual self-improvement would not necessarily enable them to overcome their profound... -
The Politics of Social Change: From the Sixties to the Present Through the Eyes of a Generation Larry M. Bartels 9780226845234
RRP: $179.40Booksplease Price: $172.67How did we get to this point in American politics? Drawing on insights from an unprecedented decades-long study of ordinary Americans' political lives, this book tells the story of how, why, and when... -
Modernization and Postmodernization: Cultural, Economic, and Political Change in 43 Societies by Ronald Inglehart
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $82.41Ronald Inglehart argues that economic development, cultural change, and political change go together in coherent and even, to some extent, predictable patterns. This is a controversial claim. It...